The number of customers who have signed on to MTN's innovative tariff structure, MTN Zone, has now hit two million, one of the broadest product uptakes in the ICT industry, according to the company.

The annual Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (ETEYA) will be substantially boosted this year with the joining of South African Breweries (SAB).

NETWORK operator MTN is slashing its number of cellphone contract variations from a mind-boggling 64 to less confusing 22, and promising that users will end up better off as well as less perplexed.

The Public Water Firm of Luanda (EPAL-EP) this Thursday announced the deactivation of the Kifangondo water treatment centre, System II, for eight days for the interconnection of pipes, mainly affecting Cacuaco district.

Extreme demand for professionals in the banking industry has compelled Kenya Commercial Bank to start a training programme through which it will produce its own supreme staff.

Bids tendered by Oceanic Bank Plc, Intercontinental Bank Plc, Bank PHB, BGL Limited and Fidelity Bank Plc, to become Financial Adviser for the N20 billion first phase of the proposed Anambra State International cargo Airport were yesterday publicly unveiled.

Investors from the United Kingdom have lamented the absence of infrastructural facilities in the country and the inactivity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), calling on the government to show more commitment in the fight against corruption and

The bearish trend that has become the hallmark of the secondary segment of the capital market on Wednesday, as the performance indices, the All-share index and market capitalisation both depreciated by 0.52 per cent.

All the 20 local governments in Ogun State have paid up their accumulated debts owed over the decades.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has blamed the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the Commission's inability to comply with the directive of the Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) to refund monies trapped in the outlawed 30 Wonder Banks.

The group chief executive of Intercontinental Bank Plc Erastus Akingbola said in Lagos on Wednesday the bank went into the microfinance banking sector in a bid to support Federal government's continuous crusade for poverty alleviation in the country.

RESERVE Bank governor Gideon Gono's tenure could be short-lived in the new inclusive government after it emerged that Zanu PF and MDC politicians and business leaders are pushing for his removal.

Quietly and unobtrusively, the Bank of Namibia took another big step at the beginning of this month when it issued an Exchange Control instruction (BON 08/05) telling fund managers they can now take 30% of their funds offshore.

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday said it is still waiting for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide it with details fund invested by investors of the frozen 30 Wonder Banks to process their payment.

Three states, Kaduna, Lagos and Abia are to benefit from the Federal government, World Bank ADR joint pilot project. The project which is being handled by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) on behalf of the federal government, will be

Success of Nigerian banks is receiving attention abroad with the latest recognition coming from International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

A SMALL but strident group of Reserve Bank shareholders say they will demand an extraordinary general meeting after being barred from speaking at yesterday's annual general meeting (AGM).

CENTRAL banks around the world yesterday prepared to inject almost $250bn to stem the worsening financial crisis.

THE Central Bank (CBN), yesterday, cut the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 10.25 per cent to 9.75 per cent in a preemptive move to shield the nation's economy from the financial crisis sweeping across the globe.

High poverty levels, rising food prices and the need to support private sector investment saw Sub Saharan Africa receiving more aid in the fiscal year 2008 from the World Bank than any other region of the world.